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A history of the shifting and conflicting ideas about when, where, and how we should touch our children

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"Raising children is such daunting work. Medical experts, parents, peers, mass media outlets, and activists engage in the production of the boundaries of what is appropriate when raising children. Halley's Boundaries of Touch is a groundbreaking and exhaustively researched analysis of human adult-child touch. With great attention to historical and cultural detail, Halley interprets how multiple, often conflicting, groups claim expertise in adult-child relationships."
--Lisa Jean Moore, coordinator of gender studies, Purchase College, State University of New York

Boundaries of Touch

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    A Paperback / softback by Jean Halley

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      Publisher: University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: 12/12/2008
      ISBN13: 9780252075810, 978-0252075810
      ISBN10: 0252075811
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      Parenting, parenthood: advice, topics and issues Sociology: family, kinship and relationships

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A history of the shifting and conflicting ideas about when, where, and how we should touch our children

      Trade Review

      "Raising children is such daunting work. Medical experts, parents, peers, mass media outlets, and activists engage in the production of the boundaries of what is appropriate when raising children. Halley's Boundaries of Touch is a groundbreaking and exhaustively researched analysis of human adult-child touch. With great attention to historical and cultural detail, Halley interprets how multiple, often conflicting, groups claim expertise in adult-child relationships."
      --Lisa Jean Moore, coordinator of gender studies, Purchase College, State University of New York

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